Traditional Music of Serbia

The folk Serbian music include different types of bagpipes, horns, cymbals, drums, lutes, psalteries, flutes, and trumpets such as Gusle (lute), Kaval (supeljka, lute), Davul (tapan goc, drum), Bouzuki (sargija, lute),  Tarambuke (drum), Frula (woodwind), Diple (dvojanka, woodwind), Gajde (bagpipe), Zurna (woodwind), Duduk (woodwind), Tambura (lute) and Tamburitza (lute).

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The genre includes both choral and non-choral (instrumental).

Balkanika, Kulin Ban, Belo Platno, Teodulija, Trkulja, Balkanopolis and Dvig Slobodan were renowned Serbian musical orchestras that use the folk Balkan musical instruments and perform folk songs and songs based on traditional music rudiments.

The song of the epic poetry has been an essential part of Serbian and Balkan music for centuries. In the highlands of Serbia and Montenegro these long epics are usually followed on an on-cord fiddle known as the gulse, and concern themselves with themes from history and mythology.

The present Serbian traditional music is both rural (izvorna muzika) and urban (starogradska muzika) and comprises a two- sound dance known as kolo, which is a circle dance with almost no trend above the waist, followed by instrumental music created very frequently with an accordion, but also with other instruments; the frula (which is the folk type of arecorder), tamburica or accordion. The Kolos regularly last for around 5-13 minutes. The current accordionists like Mirko Kodic and Ljubisa Pavkovic. Some kolos are alike to the Hungarian csardas in that they are slow at the beginning and slowly increase their speed until getting the peak towards the end.